The global recession continues to create new realities for students, institutions, and faculty members engaged in higher education. This blog chronicles those changes for academic / historical record purposes. Click on the URL at the end of each posting to view the complete news report.

Sunday, March 5, 2017

North Dakota State University is eliminating student affairs administrators and offering another round of retirement incentives to help cope with expected cuts in state funding, President Dean Bresciani said in an email to the campus Wednesday, Feb. 22. In the email, Bresciani outlined what NDSU has done to trim spending, saying the university’s careful approach has given some “the impression that we somehow suffered no consequences at all,” despite more than 50 buyouts and nearly 70 jobs left open.
http://www.inforum.com/news/4222883-ndsu-offering-phased-retirements-cutting-student-affairs-administrators